Written by Dian Grueneich, Precourt Energy Scholar, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, with assistance from Steve Comello, Lead, Energy Business Innovations Focus Area, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a co-instructor of the new Building Energy Efficiency course. Building...

This blog was originally posted by New Buildings Institute on October 30, 2019. Reducing carbon pollution and improving resilience in residential and commercial buildings across the United States was the topic of a House Select Committee hearing on the climate...

By Mark MacCracken, Portfolio Leader, CALMAC® Portfolio, Trane. For building owners and facility managers ready to start transforming their building spaces, a building with load flexibility― one that implements distributed energy resources and deploys to the most optimal resource to...

This blog was originally posted by Rocky Mountain Institute on October 15, 2019 and written by Matt Jungclaus and Laurie Stone. Today, the City of Pittsburgh passed an important ordinance to help it reach its climate goals. All new and...

By Michael Floyd, AEC Sustainability Strategy, Autodesk.   It’s a well understood conundrum: as projects progress through review cycles and become more detailed, the cost of design changes increases while the potential energy saving benefits from passive strategies decreases. If these...

This blog was originally posted by Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) and written by Maria Stamas and Pierre Delforge of NRDC. San José has successfully reached for a modern, more sustainable building energy code; its City Council voted today to...

Written by Kathy Berg, Partner at ZGF Architects. Photo Credit: Tim Griffith As the need to combat climate change intensifies, desire for sustainable structures drives architecture toward deep efficiency. Our clients are increasingly interested in exploring net zero energy and...

This blog was originally posted by NRDC on September 5, 2019. Written by David Goldstein, Energy Co-Director, Climate & Clean Energy Program at NRDC. Achieving Zero Net Energy (ZNE), which means that a facility produces as much renewable energy on-...

“Many people already know the environmental benefits green buildings bring to our communities and our world, but few understand the economic benefits of this investment. Zero energy buildings can be constructed or retrofitted for minimal upfront costs, if any, and owners...

by Katie Sloan, SCE Director of eMobility and Building Electrification.   Recently we started working with a customer who wanted us to advise him on how to electrify his home.  It was, he told us, an older home, built in 1987. ...